WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Film round-up: June 15, 2023
MARIA DUARTE reviews of Sunlight, You Can Live Forever, Inland and Greatest Days
(L to R) Barry Ward as Leon and Liam Carney as Iver
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Sunlight (15)
Directed by Claire Dix
★★★
E
A FORMER addict decides to take his terminally ill best friend and sponsor on one last hurrah across Dublin in a bid to persuade him to choose life in Claire Dix’s touching yet heartbreaking debut fiction feature.
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